init 5 kills my keyboard
This "just" started happening. I don't recall anything I did on the last boot several days ago before turning it off. So, I don't have any clue where to start looking. If I boot to runlevel 3, everything works, but only until I do 'init 5' or 'telinit 5'. Then the keyboard just dies. If I boot directly to runlevel 5, nothing but the reset & power buttons work. To run X, I must login and then do startx. This I do not like. How can I fix this? -- "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof..." U.S. Constitution, Amendment 1 Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://members.ij.net/mrmazda/
Felix Miata wrote:
This "just" started happening. I don't recall anything I did on the last boot several days ago before turning it off. So, I don't have any clue where to start looking.
If I boot to runlevel 3, everything works, but only until I do 'init 5' or 'telinit 5'. Then the keyboard just dies. If I boot directly to runlevel 5, nothing but the reset & power buttons work. To run X, I must login and then do startx. This I do not like. How can I fix this?
Havent you messed up with service 'kbd'? (take a look at runlevel editor, kbd must be ON)
On Tuesday 23 November 2004 15:16, LeoRivas wrote:
Felix Miata wrote:
This "just" started happening. I don't recall anything I did on the last boot several days ago before turning it off. So, I don't have any clue where to start looking.
If I boot to runlevel 3, everything works, but only until I do 'init 5' or 'telinit 5'. Then the keyboard just dies. If I boot directly to runlevel 5, nothing but the reset & power buttons work. To run X, I must login and then do startx. This I do not like. How can I fix this?
Havent you messed up with service 'kbd'? (take a look at runlevel editor, kbd must be ON)
Yes, in runlevels 1, 2, 3, 5, S (see /etc/init.d/kbd). Cheers, Leen
LeoRivas wrote:
Felix Miata wrote:
This "just" started happening. I don't recall anything I did on the last boot several days ago before turning it off. So, I don't have any clue where to start looking.
If I boot to runlevel 3, everything works, but only until I do 'init 5' or 'telinit 5'. Then the keyboard just dies. If I boot directly to runlevel 5, nothing but the reset & power buttons work. To run X, I must login and then do startx. This I do not like. How can I fix this?
Havent you messed up with service 'kbd'? (take a look at runlevel editor, kbd must be ON)
# chkconfig kbd kbd 12345 /etc/init.d # ls -l kbd -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 10097 Apr 5 2004 kbd /etc/init.d/rc5.d # ls -l *kbd* lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 6 Nov 17 11:50 S13kbd -> ../kbd BTW, this is 9.1 with updates several days or so before this started happening. -- "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof..." U.S. Constitution, Amendment 1 Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://members.ij.net/mrmazda/
Have you tried to run SaX from runlevel 3 and reconfigure your keyboard, maybe your X config got corrupted... On Tuesday 23 November 2004 14:27, Felix Miata wrote:
This "just" started happening. I don't recall anything I did on the last boot several days ago before turning it off. So, I don't have any clue where to start looking.
If I boot to runlevel 3, everything works, but only until I do 'init 5' or 'telinit 5'. Then the keyboard just dies. If I boot directly to runlevel 5, nothing but the reset & power buttons work. To run X, I must login and then do startx. This I do not like. How can I fix this? -- "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof..." U.S. Constitution, Amendment 1
Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409
Felix Miata *** http://members.ij.net/mrmazda/
Agustí Dosaiguas Falcó wrote on Tue, 23 Nov 2004 16:49:35 +0100:
On Tuesday 23 November 2004 14:27, Felix Miata wrote:
This "just" started happening. I don't recall anything I did on the last boot several days ago before turning it off. So, I don't have any clue where to start looking.
If I boot to runlevel 3, everything works, but only until I do 'init 5' or 'telinit 5'. Then the keyboard just dies. If I boot directly to runlevel 5, nothing but the reset & power buttons work. To run X, I must login and then do startx. This I do not like. How can I fix this?
Have you tried to run SaX from runlevel 3 and reconfigure your keyboard, maybe your X config got corrupted...
No I haven't, because startx creates a runlevel 3 X that seems to work perfectly. -- "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof..." U.S. Constitution, Amendment 1 Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://members.ij.net/mrmazda/
Ok, and after reconfiguring it, your keyboard continues to fail on runlevel 5? On Tuesday 23 November 2004 18:09, Felix Miata wrote:
Agustí Dosaiguas Falcó wrote on Tue, 23 Nov 2004 16:49:35 +0100:
On Tuesday 23 November 2004 14:27, Felix Miata wrote:
This "just" started happening. I don't recall anything I did on the last boot several days ago before turning it off. So, I don't have any clue where to start looking.
If I boot to runlevel 3, everything works, but only until I do 'init 5' or 'telinit 5'. Then the keyboard just dies. If I boot directly to runlevel 5, nothing but the reset & power buttons work. To run X, I must login and then do startx. This I do not like. How can I fix this?
Have you tried to run SaX from runlevel 3 and reconfigure your keyboard, maybe your X config got corrupted...
No I haven't, because startx creates a runlevel 3 X that seems to work perfectly. -- "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof..." U.S. Constitution, Amendment 1
Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409
Felix Miata *** http://members.ij.net/mrmazda/
Agustí Dosaiguas Falcó wrote on Tue, 23 Nov 2004 19:02:10 +0100:
On Tuesday 23 November 2004 18:09, Felix Miata wrote:
Agustí Dosaiguas Falcó wrote on Tue, 23 Nov 2004 16:49:35 +0100:
On Tuesday 23 November 2004 14:27, Felix Miata wrote:
This "just" started happening. I don't recall anything I did on the last boot several days ago before turning it off. So, I don't have any clue where to start looking.
If I boot to runlevel 3, everything works, but only until I do 'init 5' or 'telinit 5'. Then the keyboard just dies. If I boot directly to runlevel 5, nothing but the reset & power buttons work. To run X, I must login and then do startx. This I do not like. How can I fix this?
Have you tried to run SaX from runlevel 3 and reconfigure your keyboard, maybe your X config got corrupted...
No I haven't, because startx creates a runlevel 3 X that seems to work perfectly.
Ok, and after reconfiguring it, your keyboard continues to fail on runlevel 5?
Reconfiguring what? X runs fine with the XF86Config file I have now. sax: command not found. sax2 aborts with errors that scroll off the screen. /var/log/SaX.log contains the usual (EE) errors for my video card, but nothing else that seems to have anything to do with keyboard. -- "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof..." U.S. Constitution, Amendment 1 Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** Rotary ONLY since 1973 Felix Miata *** http://members.ij.net/mrmazda/ <- More than just a FAQ
Felix Miata wrote:
Agustí Dosaiguas Falcó wrote on Tue, 23 Nov 2004 19:02:10 +0100:
On Tuesday 23 November 2004 18:09, Felix Miata wrote:
Agustí Dosaiguas Falcó wrote on Tue, 23 Nov 2004 16:49:35 +0100:
On Tuesday 23 November 2004 14:27, Felix Miata wrote:
This "just" started happening. I don't recall anything I did on the last boot several days ago before turning it off. So, I don't have any clue where to start looking.
If I boot to runlevel 3, everything works, but only until I do 'init 5' or 'telinit 5'. Then the keyboard just dies. If I boot directly to runlevel 5, nothing but the reset & power buttons work. To run X, I must login and then do startx. This I do not like. How can I fix this?
Have you tried to run SaX from runlevel 3 and reconfigure your keyboard, maybe your X config got corrupted...
No I haven't, because startx creates a runlevel 3 X that seems to work perfectly.
Ok, and after reconfiguring it, your keyboard continues to fail on runlevel 5?
Reconfiguring what? X runs fine with the XF86Config file I have now. sax: command not found. sax2 aborts with errors that scroll off the screen. /var/log/SaX.log contains the usual (EE) errors for my video card, but nothing else that seems to have anything to do with keyboard.
Seems sax2 left a new file /tmp/sax2/4096/XF86Config just before I wrote my last message here, that I just found a bit ago. As usual for installer results, it is useless as is with my ET6100 video card. With it, X fails to start, but then my keyboard fails to die as well, and I am left in runlevel 5 with working keyboard. :-p Once I edit it to include the necessary 'Videoram 4096' and 'Option "noaccel"' in 'Section "Device"', X will start, but then the keyboard dies, just as before. I also tried the XF86Config files from my 9.0 box and from a 9.2 Live CD, but they kill the keyboard upon 'init 5' also. X does work from the 9.2 live once I fix 'Section "Device"'. Please, somebody tell me what to look for? Could repair from an installation CD fix this? -- "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof..." U.S. Constitution, Amendment 1 Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://members.ij.net/mrmazda/
On Tuesday 23 November 2004 14:27, Felix Miata wrote:
This "just" started happening. I don't recall anything I did on the last boot several days ago before turning it off. So, I don't have any clue where to start looking.
If I boot to runlevel 3, everything works, but only until I do 'init 5' or 'telinit 5'. Then the keyboard just dies. If I boot directly to runlevel 5, nothing but the reset & power buttons work. To run X, I must login and then do startx. This I do not like. How can I fix this?
What sort of keyboard is it? USB? Could it be that you have somehow removed hotplug from runlevel 5?
Anders Johansson wrote on Tue, 23 Nov 2004 16:52:28 +0100:
On Tuesday 23 November 2004 14:27, Felix Miata wrote:
This "just" started happening. I don't recall anything I did on the last boot several days ago before turning it off. So, I don't have any clue where to start looking.
If I boot to runlevel 3, everything works, but only until I do 'init 5' or 'telinit 5'. Then the keyboard just dies. If I boot directly to runlevel 5, nothing but the reset & power buttons work. To run X, I must login and then do startx. This I do not like. How can I fix this?
What sort of keyboard is it? USB? Could it be that you have somehow removed hotplug from runlevel 5?
Standard 101, 102 and 105 keyboards all fail identically. Only USB devices I own are a couple of trackballs, none of which I use on this machine. chkconfig hotplug is 1235. Hmmmm. I just noticed that chkconfig kbd 12345. Everything else in 4 is off. I wonder if this gets something on some startup script somewhere confused? # chkconfig -s kbd 1235 Nope, that didn't help. :-( -- "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof..." U.S. Constitution, Amendment 1 Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://members.ij.net/mrmazda/
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